Financial Exclusion and its Discontents - Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon

Описание: This webinar will outline how the concept of financial exclusion emerged, and how it has become a broadly accepted public policy objective. It looks at the origins of the work in efforts to explain the shifting geographies of financial infrastructure. The second part of the webinar will outline recent critiques of financial exclusion, considering possible alternative nomenclature (e.g. financial rights and citizenship, financial resilience) and the disconnection between such academic debates and the material ‘realities’ of financial inclusion/debt advice advocacy groups.

Shaun French is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham, U.K. He has research interests in the geographies of finance and in particular the politics of financial exclusion, financialisation, and processes of biofinancialisation and financial subjectification.

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Andrew's expertise includes geographies of money and finance, especially financial exclusion such as bank branch closure, financial literacy and alternative financial institutions. He also covers the geographies of the music industry.

This webinar is part of the Reconciling financial stability and inclusion across space series. It was jointly organized by YSI Working Groups on Urban and Regional Economics, on Financial Stability and on Inequality